[SEO]

Authenticate with OpenID (About OpenID in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID)

OpenID is a means of using one username across different websites, to simplify the online experience. To use OpenID you first need to create an OpenID account -- a list of providers can be found on the OpenID's Official Site.

Once you have an OpenID account simply enter your unique identification URL into the OpenID input box and submit. You will then be taken to your providers site to verify your identity before being passed back to this site.

On your first visit to this site you will be asked to confirm a couple of details before you will be recognized, after which you can login to this site and change your profile settings using just your OpenID.

For more information please visit the OpenID Official Site: http://openid.net.

[MSL]

 I don't use it, but I think it's a very good new option for the forum, because it'll be more convenient for some of the users and for some of the future users, probably. A useful change.

[williamjohn]

It might useful for the new user.

[SEO]

I also hope so, William John! :)

[mojo]

I noticed this the first day it was put into service. As I've mentioned before I'm sort of an odd ball when it comes to ads and datamining. That's just me.

To explain why I won't use the feature, I go back to my early days of computer usage. Used to be I used the same nick in all places. After seeing a few guessed passwords others experienced I started changing passwords for every account. So that getting the password for one place didn't open you up to some one accessing every place you went on the net.

Then started the datamining and government snooping. At this point after 20 years of using the same nick, I dropped it and never used it again. Today, on purpose, I never, ever, use the same nick nor password twice. So linking where I go on the global net or accessing my accounts through hacking, if you are successful, will only gain you access to one site.

With the start up of Doxxing, I began to use VPN as a method to hide my IP. I've been threatened with doxxing before. Either they weren't that good or maybe my measures are sufficent to the task at hand. At any rate where they were successful with others they weren't so successful with mine. That's not to say it can't be done. It would be the fool that thought that. But I won't make it easy for them.

The last mistake many make is putting their personal info in a databank. Sooner or later the databank gets hacked and all that lovely data gets taken to be sold on the dark net to enterprising young scammers. I prefer to keep my data myself and not put it in an area sure to be targeted sooner or later.

I'm sure all this reads like a tin foil hat wearer's dream. I can say it has resulted in very few problems on the internet with ID theft, money theft electronically, or as in the case of doxxing, success. All of these measures are for self protection and too late later to wish you had after an event. There is an old saying that if you won't safe guard your privacy, no one else will do it for you.  I can't block everything but I can sure make it tougher.

[MSL]

 I also can't see some sense a registered user (as us) to use it, if we're already with certain nicknames and passwords. It's useful for some of the new users, probably.
 The advice about privacy is good.